Just over the past week, we've noticed that some authors are being a bit lax with spoiler warnings. As per the submission rules:

As much as possible, spoiler warnings are expected on all stories. For categories with serialized content, such as series of books or television series, spoilers are mandatory for the current season and/or most recent part. An appropriate spoiler warning to place in your summary would be: Spoilers for The Pilot. DO NOT do anything like this: Spoilers for the one where Jim puts Dwight's stuff in jell-o.

This includes speculation based on spoilers you've heard/read about for upcoming episodes. Episode titles of upcoming episodes are even considered spoilers for a lot of people, so please be very aware of this when you've written a story that contains spoilery content for an upcoming episode. Include warnings in both your story summaries and chapter notes. All you need to put is something simple, like "Includes speculation based on spoilers for upcoming episodes.", this will be more than enough to let spoilerphobes know to steer clear of the story.

On another note, it often comes up in discussion, about the tone of reviews of late. I think we are starting to see some that just more or less bash the pairing, instead of providing the author with constructive criticism. Constructive criticism is encouraged, but leaving a review to let the author know that this pairing made you violently ill, doesn't fall under that category. The author is invested enough in said pairing to write about them, so they are going to be understandably upset by the implication that what they've written about is bad or wrong. Opinion is one thing, but this is another. To clarify what would be good etiquette, and what would be poor etiquette to those who are unsure, I'll quote Kyrafic's example from the TWOP discussion the other day:

I do think there's a nice way to do this, and a not so nice way. I don't really have a problem with "I don't normally read Pam/Karen, but this was really fun" versus "EWW, Karen ugh I hate her. But good fic." It's like going over someone's house and criticizing their music or food or whatever. You don't have to like something, but ragging on it to someone who obviously does... just not in good taste.

More Than That does have a heavy Jim/Pam focus, but we encourage stories of all kinds, we want our authors to feel comfortable posting them here, and not fear being flamed for writing something that doesn't flow with the current fandom norms.

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